ATLANTA - The LSU football team will play tonight but the purple-and-gold clad fans who appeared in bunches on the city streets Wednesday were treated to a rare sight before the game: cows in convertibles.

As part of the festivities tied to the Chick-Fil-A Bowl which pits LSU (7-5) against No. 14 Georgia Tech (9-3), a parade went on downtown Wednesday afternoon. The parade included the Golden Girls and the LSU Tigers Marching Band as it went up Peachtree Street and then down the hill of Andrew Young International Blvd. toward the Georgia Dome.

But before those parade staples brought a roar to the LSU fans lining the route the crowd watched agape as one convertible after another tooled down the broad city streets filled with the parade's grand marshals: the Chick-Fil-A cows.